Content warning: This statement deals with child death, colonialism, residential schools, genocide and intergenerational trauma.
The recent discovery of unmarked child graves at the Kamloops Residential School is a painful reminder of the horrors experienced by First Nations, Métis and Inuit children at these institutions across the land we now call Canada. Our hearts go out to the many survivors and families affected by these losses, and the loss of the many other children whose graves have yet to be located.